Agriculture

A World Bank US$210 million for a project will support small holder farmers participation in competitive agriculture value chains, facilitate agri-business investments, increase market access and productivity in focus commodities, and build resilience of crops to recurrent floods or droughts...

Representatives of the Agro-processing and Rural Development sectors have told Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to boost investment in agricultural sector and enhance market access to farmers.

The Indian agriculture-technology is growing at a rate of 25% year on year and the start-up ecosystem is playing a critical role, bringing innovation and disruption in much-needed areas.

The government is committed to promoting the use of additional farm machinery in the coming years to achieve improvement in awareness about diverse utilization of mechanization and credit support so that access to latest technologies is not a constraint.

The Government is reviving five closed fertilizer plants -- Talcher, Ramagundam, Gorakhpur and Sindri plants of FCIL and Barauni plant of HFCL by setting up new Ammonia Urea plants of 12.7 Lakh metric tonne per annum capacity.

Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy has invited Singapore investors to participate in the economic development programmes of the Union Territory which posts double-digit GDP growth annually.

The Governments India and State of Odisha have signed a US$165 million loan agreement with the World Bank to help smallholder farmers strengthen the resilience of their production systems as well as diversify and improve the marketing of their produce,...

The India frozen pizza market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.8% during the forecast period 2019 - 2027, to account to US$1.84 billion from US$550 million in 2018.

The Indian Ambassador to Indonesia, Pradeep Kumar Rawat, has urged Indian and Indonesia companies to explore means to diversify trade basket through focused items such as bovine meat, sugar and rice.

Lithuania could be an important technology partner for India, especially in areas such as lasers, renewable energy, agro-food processing and life sciences, said the Vice President, M Venkaiah Naidu.